Statistics

In Italy at the end of High School students have to pass the final exam, which is evaluated by the school, and the INVALSI test, which is a national standardized test.

By comparing the scores in the INVALSI test and the ones in the final exam it can be seen that schools in the North of Italy give much lower marks in the final exam with respect to the schools in the South, but the scores in the INVALSI test are the opposite.

In detail, Friuli (which is the region where I live, in the North East of Italy) has only 0.37% of students with the highest grade in the final exam (while Puglia has 2.12 % of them), it is the region with the least number of graduations with the maximum grade and it is placed at the lowest levels for all the grades over 90/100; conversely, it is at the top in the INVALSI scores, which are standardized.

Even Wired.it published a report about the final scores of high school students in Italy: